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Phillip Garrido Media Frenzy Creating Own Economy
11:22AM Andrew Belonsky | The news media pretends it holds moral authority in a world gone mad. But that’s just until they find a story so seductive that they can’t help but discard said authority, as seen in the storm surrounding psycho Phillip Garrido. More »
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Apple Streisands Itself
8:55AM Ryan Tate | Bryan Appleyard’s lengthy Steve Jobs profile in the Times of London breaks no real news about the Apple CEO. And yet everyone’s talking about it. Why? Because Apple tried so hard to stop the story. More »
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Journalist Fired After Exposing An Advertiser’s Crooked Practices?
8:30AM Foster Kamer | Plenty of New Yorkers are familiar with Sleepy’s, the Manny Noriega-esque monopoly on mattresses. They suck! And a longtime Hartford Courant consumer affairs columnist was fired from the paper, who they advertised with, possibly for saying and proving so. More »
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If You Want To Know Why Newspapers Are Dying
10:10AM Gabriel Snyder | Explaining why newspapers (but not journalism) are dying, Bill Wyman doesn’t romanticise them: “So, sure, an average newspaper did print some serious journalism. But is that most of what they did, or even anything more than a tiny part?”
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Peaches Geldof Would Like To Speak To You About Denim
6:21AM Hamilton Nolan | Celebuspawn journalite Peaches Geldof “hits the streets” for some good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting for Nylon on that most intriguing of subjects: Denim. See if you can spot the following exchanges, which Peaches teases out of her subjects, using journalism. More »
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Reuters Implores AP To ‘Stop Whining’
11:34AM Ryan Tate | Huzzah: The president of newswire operator Thomson Reuters says traditional journalism is not actually being strangled by Google, blogs and the rest of the internet. And that anyone who thinks so — *cough* AP *cough* — should get a grip. More »
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